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September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Alfred Ayer has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Superflewis (talk) 07:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

thanks, i undid it, had 5 windows and mistakenly edited the wrong one :)

Ayer

Hullo! How are you? :-) First of all, kudos for your excellent work in music-related articles. :-) By the way, I just observed that you've remarked that the spelling "Ayer" is frequently used. Well, I have never know the usage of this particular spelling "Ayer". Hence, I wish to ask you if it was popular at any time. The only way in which it is spelt nowadays is "Iyer". However, in British times, the spellings "Aiyar" and "Aiyer" were frequently use as one might come to know on perusal of the India Office Lists and other government publications of the time. The spelling "Ayyar" was prominent in unofficial circles.But I've never come across the use of the spelling "Ayer". Thanks-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 11:04, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Not sure how but it is a last name spelling variant, just like Aiyer, Ayyer (remove the 'y' or 'i'). Regarding popularity, its difficult to know statistics - do you know if a study was done entirely devoted to finding last names origins? ----Svaksha

Speedy deletion of Ilug bengaluru

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Re: ILUG Bengaluru hangon

Dear Svaksha,

In short, the article failed to establish why that group was notable. What has the group done that has gained them attention outside of the group? Notability is hard to establish for groups such as these, especially when they are new. Generally speaking, the group would need multiple independent sources (such as major news outlets) to talk about them and what they have done in order to establish their notability. Matt (talk) 08:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Matt, Totally agree that notability is hard to establish. In this case, the page was deleted within ONE hour before I could add the redirect link for http://bangalore.linux-india.org/ and http://bengaluru.linux-india.org/ which currently point to the mailing list. Linux_india does have a page here so could this be added under that? svaksha (talk) 13:24, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Svaksha

Offer to help with ILUG-Bengaluru

Dear Svaksha

I noticed ILUG-Bengaluru, and I am concerned it could be deleted per WP:COMPANY. WP:COMPANY says "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources" and "Individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not notable enough to warrant a separate article unless sufficient notability is established through reliable sources that extend beyond the organization's local area." I would like to offer to help the article pass WP:COMPANY. I'm afraid if no progress can be made the article will surely be put up for deletion. In the meantime I will add {{underconstruction}} to the article in order to try and prevent it being prematurely deleted. AdmiralKolchak (talk) 13:42, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Since you have been editing after I posted this message with no response to my request to help, may I ask if I can take that as a sign that you do not want assistance? I must warn that I have had no luck in trying to improve the article sufficiently, and will probably nominate for deletion if I do not receive a reply within the next two days. I know this probably seems bullish, but in its current state I do not believe the article is appropriate for Wikipedia. AdmiralKolchak (talk) 10:17, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your response, and your own thank you. I concur with your suggested course of action; we can also re-direct ILUG-Bengaluru so that people looking for it can be directed to Linux India. What do you think? AdmiralKolchak (talk) 12:21, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of ILUG-Bengaluru

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WP Bangalore Meetup

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Categories

Hello Svaksha. (I've seen your name before when I was playing with Ubuntu!) Just a note about categories: when a page is in some category, say category A, it is better not to add the page also to parent categories of A — for example, if a page already has Category:Indian mathematicians, then there is no need to add Category:Indian mathematics and Category:Indian people to it; this may clutter up the categories. Regards, Shreevatsa (talk) 14:37, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Meeting in Mumbai 20 Sept 2010

Hello! Inviting you to a meeting of wikimedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept - details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai1. Hope to see you there. Bishdatta (talk) 11:46, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Svaksha, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

Survey

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Wikimedia Stories Project

Aloha!

My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation working on collecting stories of Indian Wikipedians for the 2011 fundraiser.

I found your name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore

I’ll be traveling to India from the 12th -20th of November to conduct face to face interviews with Indian Wikipedians. I’ll be in Bangalore from November 12-15 and in Mumbai for WikiConference India from November 17 - 20.

If you are interested, and would like to schedule an interview with me, please mark your time and place of interview on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Indiastorytelling or send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) with any questions or concerns you may have.

If you feel that you’d like to talk to me, but wont be able to make it to either of these locations and would like to schedule a Skype or Telephone interview, please email me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Cheers, Victor

PS If you know of anyone with whom I should speak please let me know :)

WikiProject Mumbai

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WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!

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December 2012

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2012 Delhi gang rape case‎

is crime related, but is too long for a stub. At WP:DYK we define a stub as an article with less than 1,500 characters of prose (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables etc.). The number of characters can be measured using this script (most accurate) or this one or this tool. Materialscientist (talk) 04:18, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's Collaborative: Come join us (and check out our new website)!

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Mumbai Meetup: 21 Nov 2015

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Women in Red

Hi there, Svaksha. I see that after being away for a few years, you've now started to edit again. I also noticed that you have included the Women in Red user box on your user page but as far as I can see, you have never registered as a member of the project. You are welcome to do so under "New registrations" on this page. Happy editing and all the best for 2023!--Ipigott (talk) 09:56, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Ipigott and Happy 2023 to you too!

PS: Was never away, just too lazy to login and edit WP ;-) svaksha 14:47, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

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Please don't indiscriminately add wayback links for every arbitrary reference linked from Wikipedia

Adding wayback archive links for pages which are either dead, paywalled, or otherwise inaccessible is helpful, but trying to put a wayback link for every still-living page, as you did in special:diff/1243928783 at Bhāskara II is more or less just spam. Especially since e.g. the Google books wayback pages often don't show the book content.

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